Quotes about Tradition
The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.
- John Updike
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
- William Faulkner
You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.
- Richard Baxter
There is nothing so important in the family as the sacred quality of the meal.
- Henri Nouwen
If the family goes, so goes our civilization.
- Ronald Reagan
How beautiful is the family that recites the Rosary every evening.
- Pope John Paul II
The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews.
- Heinrich Heine
I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.
- Pope Leo I
Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
- Martha Graham
Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.
- NT Wright
Those who fear the new are the ones who have mastered the old.
- Simon Sinek
Happy Cinco de Mayo! It's a holiday that's as respectful of Mexican traditions as Epcot Center's Mexican food pavilion.
- Conan O'Brien